[XeTeX] bidi & eso-pic are broken

[Fahad Al-Saidi]

Thanks Vafa for helping me. I would like to ask if there is any  way to fix
wallpaper package to work as expected in RTL document.

Regards,
Fahad


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Vafa Khalighi <vafa.klgh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have just done that. I only needed to change the horizontal co-ordinate
> of \put command as previously mentioned and it works as one would expect in
> RTL. I have changed the horizontal co-ordinate of \put from 0pt to
> -(\paperwidth-\textwidth).
>
> Vafa
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Fahad Al-Saidi <fahad.alsaidi at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks Vafa for the clarification. If you can guide me what the the
>> recommended way to deal with pictures especially water mark in RTL document
>> since wallpaper does not work as expected. I am working in a document for
>> children that includes hundreds pictures and I am using wallpaper & eso-pic
>> packages heavily. Now I can return to ubuntu 12.04' packages but I will
>> face the problem soon or later.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Vafa Khalighi <vafa.klgh at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> This has nothing to do with eso-pic-bidi file. In the previous versions
>>> of bidi package, the behaviour of picture environment was changes so that
>>> in RTL, still the reference point was at the right (where the line starts
>>> in RTL) but commands like \put behaved the same in LTR and RTL. i.e. if you
>>> gave a positive horizontal coordinate to \put, t would go to the right and
>>> if you gave a negative horizontal coordinate, it would go to the left.
>>>
>>> Later on, we found that it was more problematic rather than being
>>> useful. Therefore I removed that modification to picture environment.
>>>
>>>
>>> Your example, will work fine in RTL, if you just change the horizontal
>>> coordinate of \put in your document. On the other hand, \RTL and \LTR are
>>> not commands; RTL and LTR are environments.
>>>
>>> Vafa
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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